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Colonial Era Funerary Art
By Kelli Hammond
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Question 9
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What is funerary art? (You will probably need to look this up on the internet.)
Watch the video below until the 4 minute marker.
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Question 14
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What do the markers (and how they change over time) tell us about society?
Question 15
15.
Why did the early Puritans not put crosses on their churches or tombstones?
Question 16
16.
What other sorts of art work or decorations are found on 17 century tombstones?
Question 17
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Question 18
18.
What other bits of decoration do you see on that tombstone?
Question 19
19.
What do some historians think the winged cherub symbolizes?
Question 20
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Question 22
22.
What three images do you see above?
Question 1
1.
Where was the first lasting European community founded in present day USA?
Question 2
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Question 3
3.
How are the burial sites of the Christian colonists distinguished from those of the Native Americans?
Question 4
4.
Where were the graveyards of New England colonists usually located?
Question 5
5.
Why did some early Puritans set aside common secular grounds for burials?
Question 6
6.
What types of images are found on these tombstones?
Question 7
7.
Why were churchyard burials problematic in the south?
Question 8
8.
Where did they bury their dead instead?
In which state is the video filmed?
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
New Hampshire
What types of images are found on the grave markers?
Skulls and crossbones
Hour glasses
Flames
All of the above
Which of the motifs symbolizes eternity?
Peacocks
Flames
Hourglass
Death's Head
What does the hour glass symbolize?
eternity
time passes quickly
mortality
heaven
Look at the top of this tombstone. What image is this?
Winged Chreub
Peacock
Death's Head
Willow and Urn
What image is this?
Winged Chreub
Peacock
Death's Head
Willow and Urn
What image is this?
Winged Chreub
Peacock
Death's Head
Willow and Urn
Who founded it?
English
Spanish
French
Dutch
